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Hidden Whisper (Xiao Bai Wu Jin Ji)
DIRECTOR: Vivian Chang
Taiwan 1:38:00 35mm Color Chinese 
 Executive Producers: Yeh Chien-Chao, Huang Lin-Hsiang
Directed by the former assistant director to both Sylvia Chang and Tsai Ming-liang, HIDDEN WHISPER is an assured and affecting debut feature capturing the shifting balance of power between mothers and daughters everywhere. The film can be viewed somewhat ambiguously as either the stories of three different women at pivotal stages in their lives, or as the story of a mother and daughter whose relationship stumbles repeatedly, then slowly blossoms over a 30-year period. In the first episode, a small girl and her crippled father are professional beggars in the local street market, while at home her mother entertains other men. The small girl becomes a teenager in the second part, stealing people's library cards to assume their identity and become someone else for a while. She and her mother may as well live on different planets, given the minimal contact between them. In the final chapter a 30-year-old woman visits her dying mother in the hospital, and must confront what her mother means to her, particularly when she realizes she is soon to become a mother herself. This episode folds in the themes from the first two sections, completing the film's visionary cycle of birth, motherhood, forgiveness and death.Adapted from Nicola Pierson, Edinburgh International Film Festival
Hibernation is showing in this program:
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